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Monday, October 21, 2013

Lucifer by Annabell Cadiz {blog tour, review, excerpt, giveaway}

{about the book}

Have you
ever wondered what could be hiding in the shadows?

Well, for
eighteen-year-old Zahara Faraday, she doesn’t have to wonder. You
see she comes from a lineage of Light Witches, those who have chosen
to help protect and serve between the supernatural world and the
human world. The only problem is Zahara, like her father Solomon, is
as human as a human being can be whereas her mother, Mia, and her
Aunt Catalina, were born as Light Witches. As a family they hunt down
rogue supernaturals—creatures who harm humans or who have committed
an act against their kingdom.

Zahara’s
hunting skills are usually kept dormant since her parents would
prefer she live life as a normal human girl without knowledge of the
supernatural world. She plans on doing just that—except when she
finds a couple being attacked by fairies, she has no choice but to
step in. Before she can return to pretending to be blissfully
ignorant, Zahara encounters a problem she isn’t the least equip to
handle: Bryan Hamilton, the good looking new co-worker she has to
help train. In a heartbeat, her best friend, Becca King, has set her
up on a double date with herself and her new crush, Rekesh
Saint-Louis, who happens to be the most powerful leader of the
biggest Imago Coven in South Florida –supernatural creatures with
the ability to control water . . . and suck out human souls.

Zahara
has no time to focus on how she’s going to explain her double date
with her best friend and the enemy they have a tentative truce with
to her parents because soon one of the members of Mia and Catalina’s
coven is found murdered with a strange tattoo of a snake with wings
carved into his arm.

Zahara is then thrown into a whirlwind
battle with an angel determined to have revenge against God, an Imago
coven she doesn’t think they should trust, and slew of dream-eating
fairies and powerful Nephilims, hybrid children of angels and humans,
more than happy to rip her to shreds.

“Is that blood?” Zahara asked eyeing
the ground a few steps in front of them.

Becca looked down toward the ground and
moved closer to the gloopy stain of red. She bent down and tilted her
head to the side. “Looks like blood.”

Zahara kneeled down beside the blood and
looked down the hall on the left, which led outside to where all the
dumpsters where found. “There’s more down that way,” she
directed with a thrust of her chin.

“Oh no, you don’t!” Becca said
grabbing onto Zahara’s arm.

“Becks, we have to check out what it
is; someone could be hurt.”

Becca was already shaking her head no.
“Are you stupid? Follow the path of blood down the dark hallway
into the back alley where there can possibly be a body and some
killer. It’s too cliché horror movie for my taste. We are not
those stupid girls. Let’s go get your parents.” She yanked Zahara
back toward the food court, but Zahara pulled her back.

“By the time we get to my parents,
explain what we found and they come to investigate, the person in the
back alley could be dead and it’ll be our fault for not helping
when we could.” Zahara turned around and started walking down the
hallway, taking out the dagger from her back pocket. She unclipped
the can of pepper spray from the keychain clipped to her pants and
tossed it to Becca. “You coming or am I going in alone?”

“Stupid best friend is gonna follow the
stupid trail of blood down the stupid hallway with a stupid can of
pepper spray and a stupid dagger and she expects us not to get
killed,” Becca mumbled through tight teeth as she followed Zahara.

They walked slowly, sticking to the wall
so as not to step on the blood. The door leading out to the dumpsters
was shut. Zahara leaned back against it and looked at Becca. Becca
swallowed hard and gave her a quick nod, shaking the can of pepper
spray. Zahara threw the door open and twisted around on her heel as
fast as she could. Becca ran outside with the can of pepper spray
held high, but they found nothing more than blood on the ground.

Zahara tiptoed around the drops of blood
on the ground, walking farther back into the alleyway and stopped as
she heard voices.

“Tell us where you’ve hidden it!” a
man snapped. Skin slapped against skin and another man cried out.

“I told you, we do not have it!”

Zahara felt her heart bang against her
ribcage. She recognized that voice. She moved closer, staying beside
one of the dumpsters, and knelt. Becca knelt beside her and took a
deep breath.

“That sounds like Eric,” Becca
whispered.

“You have one last chance to tell us
where you’ve hidden the arrow, Jacobson,” the same male voice
threatened.

Zahara had no doubt he meant what he
said. She knew she would probably regret this later, but she jumped
up and ran around the dumpster, hearing Becca’s faint curse as she
did. Three sets of eyes turned to look at her. Eric, one of the
members of Mia and Catalina’s coven, was on his knees, arms bound
by the grip of another man standing behind him.

He was tall and slender, enough muscle to
show he wasn’t lazy, but he didn’t look strong enough to be able
to hold down Eric’s six-foot, four-inch frame, which was nothing
but toned, hard muscle. Eric, on the other hand, looked to be in
pain. He had slices across his face and his bottom lip was split
open. Blood slithered from the open wounds onto the ground.

“Let him
go, now!” Zahara demanded. She gripped the dagger handle more
tightly, holding it pressed against her thigh.

{about the author}

Annabell
Cadiz was born in the sweltering heat of South Florida. She was
raised surrounded by Puerto Rican chefs and band of siblings that
weren’t all related to her. A self-proclaimed nerd and book-a-holic
(her room does hold much evidence to prove her claims are
justifiable), she created TeamNerd Reviews to showcase her EXTREME
love for novels where, along with her best friend, Bridget Strahin,
she hosts book reviews, interviews, giveaways and much more. She also
had the pleasure of being published in three separate issue of
Suspense Magazine. She is currently attending Trinity International
University to attain her B.A. in Psychology. She also adores Cinnamon
Teddy Grahams, has an addiction to Minute Maid Orange juice, and is a
proud Jesus Freak. Her debut novel, LUCIFER (SONS OF OLD TRILOGY, #1)
was published January 2013 and the second book, MICHAEL, will be out
Fall/Winter 2013 and the third book, NEPHILIM, will be out Spring
2014.

{my thoughts}This is a really great paranormal YA book. I liked the characters and the storyline was interesting. Everything is so descriptive you will feel as if you are right there! I was able to read this in one sitting and was left wanting more. You will be surprised with a few twists and then left with a cliffhanger! I know, I know....but it's an awesome book so the cliffhanger was worth it. :) Good versus evil....who will win? Read and find out!